Chapter 423: Dongying with Heavy Losses (Part II)
"Cao Ren, there is a cavalry coming! There were about three thousand people! ”
Wang Yanzhang adjusted his breathing and tried to recover his strength.
He saw a cavalry with torches coming in the darkness, and judging by the sound of horses' hooves, there were three thousand cavalry.
"Yes!"
Cao Ren divided a cavalry to block it, and then retreated to the city with Wang Yanzhang.
The main force of the Han army went eastward, and he Wang Yanzhang faced the lineup of all the great names and generals of the Warring States of Dongying, and it was still a little laborious under the surprise attack.
Two thousand cavalry stepped forward to block, and a fierce general came, and the dragonfly cut the oncoming Han cavalry under the horse!
Honda Tadashi is extremely fierce, he is the fierce general of the top few forces in Dongying, a dragonfly cut, and even beheaded dozens of cavalry under Cao Ren!
The 2,000 cavalry were assaulted by the 3,000 cavalry led by Honda Tadakatsu and were quickly routed!
Honda is loyal to the victory and kills the horse, and directly takes Cao Ren!
Cao Ren fought with Honda Tadakatsu with a gun, and the two fought for a few rounds, and Cao Ren was completely suppressed.
The emperor-level weapon dragonfly slashed, slicing through Cao Ren's armor, leaving a bloody mark!
It is said that Honda Tadakatsu followed Tokugawa Ieyasu since he was a child, fought 57 battles in his life, did not have any injuries, and had many beheadings and siege records, and was known as the first fierce general of the Warring States and Zhang Fei of Toei.
Cao Ren was sniped by Honda Tadakatsu and was quickly wounded.
Wang Yanzhang's physical strength recovered slightly, and he supported Cao Ren with a gun.
If Wang Yanzhang's physical strength is completely recovered, he can fight Benduo and win loyally, and at this time, he can join forces with Cao Ren and block the dragonfly cut.
The blade of the dragonfly cut towards Wang Yanzhang's right hand holding the gun, and the blade of the spear rubbed against the iron spear to produce sparks!
Wang Yanzhang let go of his right hand and only shot at Honda Tadakatsu with his left hand!
Honda Tadakatsu's retracted dragonfly cut, parrying the iron spear!
Honda Tadashi was in the Warring States of Dongying, and he could almost fight any military general on his own, but in the face of Wang Yanzhang, he couldn't kill him directly, and he couldn't help but be surprised.
Wang Yanzhang's physical strength was consumed in the battle with the generals of the Takeda family, and the force in the current state was not as good as Honda Tada's, and he was not greedy for war, and with Cao Ren's cooperation, he could block Honda Tada's victory.
Wang Tiegun, who was at the peak of his physical strength, wanted to fight to the death with Honda Tadashi, to see if his iron spear was powerful, or Honda Tadashi's dragonfly cutting was powerful.
30,000 Yellow Turban troops came to support Wang Yanzhang and Cao Ren, including the Yellow Turban Chief, Honda Tadashi killed hundreds of Yellow Turbans, and saw Wang Yanzhang and Cao Ren retreat into the city, so they gave up the pursuit.
Even if he used the force of his current No. 1 fierce general of the Warring States of Dongying, he would enter the city and be besieged by a group of Han troops, he would be killed. Just like Wang Yanzhang was besieged by the Takeda family, his physical strength would be exhausted.
"Lord Lord, the beheading of the enemy will fail, please punish you."
After Honda Tadakatsu wounded Cao Ren, he returned to see Tokugawa Ieyasu and took the initiative to plead guilty.
By this time, the sky had turned slightly white, and Tokugawa Ieyasu withdrew his troops ahead of schedule, and the losses were not heavy.
"You beheaded thousands in this battle, and you have no merit."
Tokugawa Ieyasu was very fond of Honda Tadakatsu, who had grown up with him, so it was naturally impossible to punish him.
The battle between the Han army and the Dongying army lasted from night to early morning, and after the Han army reached its combat purpose, it retreated into the city like a tide.
The Han army only used reserve troops, facing the lineup of all the daimyo and all military generals in the middle and late Warring States period, and it could not be completely annihilated, as long as it severely damaged the Dongying army.
The Han army in the city is mainly low-level troops, and the high-level main force is to march eastward, while Oda Nobunaga and they take the high-level troops brought from the mainland as the main force, Guo Ziyi and others have achieved considerable results, and the flames have burned most of the camp of the Dongying army, and the siege equipment has suffered heavy losses. The Dongying army was unable to organize a siege in a short period of time.
The daimyo counted their losses, and more than a thousand people were trampled to death by their own people in the chaos.
The Takeda family suffered the greatest losses, and five important historical generals were killed, among which the highest death status was the leader of the Chibei cavalry, the elderly Iifu Huchang, who was killed by Wang Tiegun with three shots, and died in the evening. Sanada Nobutsuna, the eldest son of the Sanada family, was killed by Cao Ren, and the Sanada family made a feud with the Han Empire.
Two important figures were killed in the Maori family, among which Maori Yuanqing, the fourth son of Maori Yuan, was killed in battle, and Maori Yuan fell ill because of this.
Daimyo such as Oda Nobunaga, Uesugi Kenshin, Hojo Shiyasu, and Shimazu Takahisa all suffered losses, and all of their retainers were killed and wounded in the battle.
The daimyo of Toei retreated.
In the melee last night, the Persian army could not distinguish the situation, so it did not move. The next day, the Persian army could not help but be shocked to learn that the Dongying army had suffered heavy losses, with dozens of generals and 50,000 casualties.
The tenacity of the Han army is beyond their imagination.
No one thought that there was an ambush of the Han army outside the city, and they waited patiently until ten days after the siege before launching a surprise attack.
Most of the siege equipment of the Dongying Legion was burned, and the siege equipment had to be rebuilt.
And there is even more unfavorable news to come.
"A ninja inquired about the situation in the eastern battlefield, the Han Empire defeated the Mongol Empire and occupied the main city in the east. If you stay here, I am afraid that the whole army will be wiped out. ”
In Oda Nobunaga's camp, the strategist Takenaka Hanbei sensed that the Han army in the eastern battlefield might return to the main city in the west.
"Is this the end of our martial arts? With the power of the world, you can't capture a main city? ”
Oda Nobunaga is already in the main world, and with a lot of popularity, he has gained the support of players, and the expansion rate is much faster than expected, Kinoshita Hideyoshi (Toyotomi Hideyoshi), Takenaka Hanbei and others are under his command, and Tokugawa Ieyasu is his ally. Except for Takeda Shingen, Uesugi Kenshin, and Mori Moto, a few nearby daimyos, no one could stop Oda Nobunaga's determination to take the world Bubu.
As for the wise Mitsuhide who betrayed Oda Nobunaga during the change in Honnoji, he has been taken away from power by Oda Nobunaga. Oda Nobunaga got a lot of help from Injin and avoided many twists and turns, so the expansion speed can be fast!
Even so, Oda Nobunaga, who planned to take a main castle before the start of the national war, found himself gathering all the daimyo of Toei, and was unable to capture even one of the main castles.
It was extremely difficult to capture any of the main cities, and the powerful Mongol Empire, after capturing one main city, was defeated by the three major civilizations when attacking the second main city.
The Daimyo were unable to compete with the Mongol Empire, and it was difficult to capture a single major city.
"Hideyoshi, are we fighting or retreating?"
Oda Nobunaga looked at Hideyoshi Kinoshita, who trusted.
"It is necessary to retreat, otherwise it will suffer an even greater defeat."
"Inform the other daimyos, lift the siege, and return to the city."
Oda Nobunaga, having lost confidence, began to withdraw his troops.
The other daimyo heard that they were going to withdraw to the initial city, and although they were unwilling, the main city in the west could not be captured for a long time, and more and more defenders would be recruited in the city, and the Toei army would be more dangerous.
The Daimyo withdrew their troops, and the Persian nobles heard that their temporary allies had withdrawn, so they also disbanded and returned to their own Persian cities. Without the main city, they have other trophies - the population and points they have gained on the battlefield of the national war.
There were only 300,000 men left in Dongying, and they withdrew to the rear of the eastern battlefield.
Wei Qing, Zhang Liao, Yang Ye, Lanling Wang and other cavalry generals led 50,000 cavalry to rush over, encountered the retreating Dongying army, and immediately attacked!
The two legions met on the plains, and the Takeda cavalry, which was the vanguard of the Toei legion, was once again severely damaged! Takeda's cavalry was less than 20,000 people, and 50,000 Han cavalry galloped past, and the high-ranking Chibei cavalry was killed and wounded!
"The Takeda Legion is being assaulted!"
The cavalry in front told the rear.
"If we don't fight hard, we will be wiped out, and only by joining forces can we survive!"
Oda Nobunaga, Uesugi Kenshin, Tokugawa Ieyasu and others understand that only by fighting hard can they avoid being defeated!
The elites were engaged in a melee with the cavalry of Wei Qing and others, and the Oda family and the Shimazu family invested in their own iron artillery teams!
Dense iron cannons rang out, and arquebuses fired at the Han cavalry, which frightened the horses, and hundreds of Han cavalry were shot.
This was not the first time that the Han cavalry had encountered arquebusiers.
In the face of the iron artillery teams of Oda and Shimazu, only by stepping forward and killing this group of arquebusiers with sabers can they be defeated.
"You guys go kill the arquebusiers!"
Yang Ye and Zhang Liao, two fierce generals, ordered Wei Qing to wipe out the iron artillery team from the Oda family and the Shimazu family.
The Iron Artillery Corps can inflict casualties on the heavy cavalry, and ordinary armor cannot resist the penetrating power of the arquebus, so their Iron Artillery Corps must be wiped out!
A group of Satsuma samurai protected the iron artillery team of the Shimazu family, and Shimazu Iyohisa, who had a quarrel with Mi Zhu, personally led the Satsuma samurai, using dense spears and naginatas to block Yang Ye and Zhang Liao's cavalry.
The battlefield was chaotic, and the daimyo fought head-on.
Honda Tadakatsu was once again thrown into the battlefield by Tokugawa Ieyasu, and the dragonfly cut attacked the Lanling King and fought with the Lanling King!
Zhang He saw that the king of Lanling was in a bitter battle, so he came to the aid of the king of Lanling with a gun and dealt with the current number one fierce general in Dongying.
"Take your head!"
Honda Tada's dragonfly cut with cold light, and slashed horizontally towards Zhang He!
Zhang He's spear was cut off, and the blade of the spear tore through the armor!
King Lanling hurriedly came to the rescue with a lance, blocking the dragonfly cut, and his arm was trembling.
The smoke of gunpowder was filled, the cavalry, archers, and iron artillery teams fought, and the melee between the two sides lasted for half a day, each with damage, and the Dongying army was attacked on the way to retreat, and temporarily assembled to respond to the battle, so the losses were greater.
was weakened by Wei Qing, and there were less than 300,000 people left in the Toei army, and the various daimyo of the Toei legion, Oda Nobunaga, Takeda Shingen, Uesugi Kenshin, Kinoshita Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu all had the aura of the whole army, which was enough to cover the 300,000 army.
They alternated with each other and, under the prying eyes of the Han cavalry, cautiously left.
Wei Qing did not order the pursuit, and most of the Dongying Legion that can survive so far are high-level troops who have experienced a hundred battles, and there are not many high-level cavalry under Wei Qing's command.
The high-ranking cavalry of the Han army successively dealt with the Mughals, Persians, Ottomans, Mongols, and Germany, and lost more than half, and most of the cavalry brought by Wei Qing to support the main cities in the west were low-level cavalry.
Even so, Wei Qing struck a blow at the Dongying Legion, weakening its strength to less than 300,000.
The war was over in less than two months, and the Dongying Army had little time to replenish its forces, and there was almost no threat to the main city of the Han army.
"General Zhang He is injured!"
In the army under the temporary command of Wei Qing, Zhang He was wounded by the emperor-level weapon of Honda Tadashi, and the king of Lanling, who also belonged to Yuan Shao's camp, had a solemn face.
Honda Tadakatsu's force was obviously above Zhang He, and the king of Lanling could not stop Honda Tadashi from injuring Zhang He.
Wei Qing ordered the physician to treat Zhang He's injuries, and then entered the main city in the west.
At this point, the threat faced by the main city in the west was all lifted, and the Dongying army suffered more than 100,000 casualties in order to attack the main city in the west, and did not achieve any results, but only obtained a batch of points.
Toei was not without gains, the national war taught Toei's daimyo a lesson, and the loss of the Takeda family also broke the pattern of the main world.
The impact of the Third War on the main world was unprecedented, and the Mongol Empire in Mobei was given a chance to rise, the Ottoman Empire's Suleiman Magnificent was killed, the Ottoman Empire was torn apart, the Takeda family in Dongying was weakened, and the Chibei cavalry suffered heavy losses.
"They can leave, and it's not weak. Then we just have to hold on until the end of the national war. ”
Guo Ziyi heard that the Dongying Army left and was not completely annihilated, and the other party, as a civilization with tens of millions of people in "Lord", is also a bit capable.
The Han Empire had seized the two main cities and had reached the most ideal situation.
The Han Empire did not covet a third main city.
The Han army attacked the main city in the north and would fight a decisive battle with the Mongol army in the northern steppe. The northern terrain is a steppe, and for the Mongol cavalry, who are good at detouring, rushing, and luring the enemy, they wish the Han army would come to the steppe.
Attacking the southern city will offend the only ally, Catherine. The Grand Duchy of Moscow is plotting against the main city in the south, and with the intervention of the Han army, Catherine will definitely turn her face.
Not only that, but the southern civilizations of the United States, Switzerland, the Kushan Empire, the Amazon, the Maya, and the Donghu would also make enemies with the Han army.
In short, the more main cities are attacked, the more civilizations will be offended.
If the Han army attacked the third main city, some civilizations that had not yet withdrawn from the battlefield, such as Persia, Arabia, Dongying, Goryeo, Rome, Macedonia, Germany, and Mughals, might attack the main city in the west and the main city in the east at the same time, and the gains would outweigh the losses.
The two main cities are already the current limit.
In the fifth main city, the Han navy fought with ships such as England, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, the allied forces of the Nordic countries, and the United States, and no one had the opportunity to attack the fifth main city.
The fifth main city is located on a small island and has only 50,000 NPC defenders.
However, this legendary hero is a little depressed.
The sailors of various civilizations fought fiercely, and they were stunned that no civilization attacked the fifth main city.
The Han navy wanted to attack the city, but was intercepted by the western sailors. There are many maritime civilizations in the West, and they have a large number of navigators and heroes, such as Columbus (master navigator), Francis Drake (English privateer captain, repelling the Spanish Armada), Don Juan (Spanish general, commander of the naval battle of Lepanto) and other naval heroes. Maritime civilization is prone to give birth to navigator masters and heroes, while continental civilization suffers more in this regard.
Similarly, the alliance of the Nordic nations tried to send the brave and warlike Viking warriors to the island to seize the city, but was stopped by the Han army's naval divisions.
The two sides are in a prisoner's dilemma, and neither is willing to let the other go to the island to attack the city.
This dilemma, even if Tongque brings the strategist Chen Ping, is difficult to solve, and the two sides have reached a stalemate.
In the southern battlefield, various civilizations are still grabbing the main city in the south.
The militia musketeers of the United States, the Amazonian warriors, fought with heavy casualties, and Catherine's cavalry appeared on the horizon when the civilizations of the Americas were fighting, and the Cossacks raised sharp sabers......